US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 6 for "Ethoxylated fatty diamine as a corrosion inhibitor for pipelines and storage tanks" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,785, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Ethoxylated fatty diamine as a corrosion inhibitor for pipelines and storage tanks" was invented by Jothibasu Ramasamy (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muthukumar Nagu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ashok Kumar Santra (The Woodlands, Texas) and Nayef M. Alanazi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corrosion inhibition composition includes a carrier fluid and corrosion inhibitor consisting essentially of a compound represented by Formula (I): where R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each, independently, a hydrogen or an alkoxy group, andn are each, inde...